March 26, 2009

New Ditko - The Ever Unwilling essay

THE COMICS Vol. 20, No. 3 [March 2009], the latest issue of Robin Snyder's newsletter, features a 2-page essay by Steve Ditko, "The Ever Unwilling", which is his clearest statement yet on the issue of the identity of the Green Goblin and its (non)-relationship with his departure from Spider-Man.

Ordering info, plus a list of available prior issues of THE COMICS with Ditko content (including his 16-part 2001-2003 "Mini-History of Spider-Man"), over here as always, along with Ditko's in-print and upcoming co-publications with Snyder.

Specifically, since someone asked me to clarify (and since I want to have it somewhere for easy reference), the "Mini-History" can be found in these issues:

Cool, so I've got a temporary semi-exclusive. Anyway, I think people who are frustrated by what they see as the round-about and digressive nature of Ditko's essays (a group which sometimes includes me) will like this one. I'm not naive enough to think it will put the "Ditko quit over the Green Goblin's identity" nonsense to rest, but at least gives a few good pithy quotes you can use to refute it.